Carpenter Shop, Garden of Hope, Peaselburg, Covington, KY
The life's work of Reverend Morris H. Coers, the Garden of Hope is located high on a hilltop in the Peaselburg neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky, overlooking the city and Interstate 71/75 below. Constructed between 1956 and 1958, the garden was based on a visit that Coers had made to Palestine in 1938, and was meant to give those in the region the ability to experience some of the sites that the reverend visited in the Levant. Following Coers's death in 1960, the garden fell into disarray and disrepair, with the attraction having never been as successful or popular as projected during his lifetime. Several nonprofits have come and gone over the years to look after the garden, but this has been inconsistent. However, the garden is still a charming locale to visit, and features mature landscaping, a replica of what Coers believed was christ's tomb, a small chapel modeled on old Spanish missions, and a carpenter shop based on one Coers visited in Palestine.
Carpenter Shop, Garden of Hope, Peaselburg, Covington, KY
The life's work of Reverend Morris H. Coers, the Garden of Hope is located high on a hilltop in the Peaselburg neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky, overlooking the city and Interstate 71/75 below. Constructed between 1956 and 1958, the garden was based on a visit that Coers had made to Palestine in 1938, and was meant to give those in the region the ability to experience some of the sites that the reverend visited in the Levant. Following Coers's death in 1960, the garden fell into disarray and disrepair, with the attraction having never been as successful or popular as projected during his lifetime. Several nonprofits have come and gone over the years to look after the garden, but this has been inconsistent. However, the garden is still a charming locale to visit, and features mature landscaping, a replica of what Coers believed was christ's tomb, a small chapel modeled on old Spanish missions, and a carpenter shop based on one Coers visited in Palestine.